In a brief pocket of time in the always-busy life of Christian Bonnefoi, this interview took place while driving in Bonnefoi_s car one very foggy and rainy evening, between Vitry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, and his home in Montargis, France, south of Paris. Present, past, future_ Ron Johnson Courtesy of the artist. In a brief […]

If last summer?s version of "Drunk vs. Stoned" was more drunk (rambling and spatially discombobulated), this year?s sequel, "Drunk Vs. Stoned 2," is surely more stoned. Drunk vs. Stoned 2: Revenge of the Stoned Elwyn Palmerton R. Crumb, My True Inner Self. No date. Ink on paper, 8 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches. If last […]

It’s hard to remember how we managed to eat and breathe in those ancient days before cell phones and the Internet. This summer I received announcements from several art galleries and museums advertising that they are switching their press releases over to electronic media, completely. Art Scam Christopher Chambers One of the lovely snapshots that […]

Pablo Helguera is a New-York based artist whose multimedia installations and performance pieces ask and investigate questions of memory, loss, and culture. A Brief History of Finitude Leah Oates Pablo Helguera, installation view of “The School of Panamerican Unrest.” Image courtesy of Julia Friedman Gallery. Pablo Helguera is a New-York based artist whose multimedia installations […]

If childhood is a time of whimsy, imagination, and invention, it is no wonder so much artwork harkens back to this early and irretrievable period of free play. Certain artists have reveled in the project of reconstructing children?s games, finding various exuberant paths back to the unfettered world of overflowing toy chests and impenetrable jury-rigged […]

In "Art and Objecthood" (1967), Michael Fried wrote, "The literalist espousal of objecthood amounts to nothing other than a plea for a new genre of theater, and theater is now the negation of art." His statement is dated, and "literalist," his term for Minimalist art, never made it much past his own use–but his words […]

If climate change one day causes all of the museum world’s text labels to peel off and fall to the ground, one artist who will not be in danger of being misidentified is Barbara Kruger. Listening to You Cedar Lewisohn Barbara Kruger, Installation, 1991. Silkscreen, wallpaper. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York. Photo Zindman […]

It seems that Beijing is a breeding ground for wacky art. Cheto Castellano, a Chilean artist who has lived in China the past year, confirms my suspicion that anything can be done in China. Castellano has a history of working with unconventional materials. The King of the Chinese Underground Lissette Olivares Cheto Castellano’s carved skulls. […]

Joel Sternfeld?s melancholy photographs of the abandoned High Line, the disused elevated railway track that runs for 20 blocks along the West Side, from the meatpacking district up through Chelsea, capture the irony of a wilderness blooming in New York City. Maintaining wilderness Hilary Sample Field Operations and Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, The High Line, […]

Girl #39 showcases a model with shoulder length blonde hair, rich lips, low-cut blouse and pout, in a 12×15 photograph. But she hardly represents the typical model: a gray circle obstructs her neck and upper chest, and her portrait sits quarantined in a black rectangle, flanked all around by Mondrian-ish grids spanning the entire color […]